Jan Schmidt has served the Dance Division for over twenty years. For more than seventeen years she was in the Dance Division’s Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, where she created original documentations of dance performances and helped shaped the archive. She has been involved in strategic partnerships with other institutions including those with Dance Heritage Coalition, Core of Culture, Khmer Dance Project and Cinémathèque de la Danse. Recent articles she has written about the Dance Division were published by The Korea Society for Dance Documentation and Tanzplan deutchland Tanzarchiv Leipzig.